At the TIB Technology/Natural Sciences, TIB Sozialwissenschaften (Social Sciences) and TIB Conti-Campus sites, lending and returning items is possible Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 15:00 and registration from 10:00 to 12:00. The reading rooms at the TIB Conti-Campus site and the TIB Technology/Natural Sciences site are open to a limited number of people Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 15:00.

Equal opportunities at TIB

TIB attaches great importance to equal opportunities for women and men. The library supports the Leibniz Association's objectives concerning equal opportunities for women and men, as well as the DFG's Research-Oriented Standards on Gender Equality, and takes action to implement them. TIB offers its employees numerous options for personalised working arrangements in a bid to reconcile career interests and family life, embrace individual life circumstances and ensure that caring and other tasks outside the workplace can be performed:

Various working time models (such as part-time) and very flexible working hours

Alternating telework as a regular working time model

Mobile work, home office

The use of various offers provided by Leibniz Universität Hannover, such as back-up childcare and holiday childcare

Opportunities for further training and education during a period of leave

Assistance in resuming a career following a period of leave

Equal opportunities and gender aspects are implemented as a management task at all management levels and in all decision-making processes related to organisational development. TIB's gender-balanced working environment promotes job satisfaction and lays the foundation for employees' skills-oriented advancement, securing the library's performance capability.

Increasing the proportion of women

A further objective is to increase the number of women at all academic career levels. In 2018, a total of 61 percent of TIB employees were women; 25 percent of management positions were held by women.

Total E-Quality Award

In 2019, the library received the Total E-Quality Award – as the only library in Germany – for the sixth time running for its exemplary implementation of gender equality measures, its excellent conditions for the reconciliation of career interests and family life and the way in which it embraces equal opportunities.